Raspivo, having fun with Raspberry Pi 2 and XiVO, an open source telephone system

Raspivo, having fun with Raspberry Pi 2 and XiVO, an open source
telephone system

In 2012 a first attempt was made at integrating a raspberry-pi and
XiVO, a telephone system based on Asterisk and licensed under GPLv3.
More info at
http://www.raspberry-xivo.org.

Furthermore, the arrival of the raspberry pi version 2 has opened up
new technical avenues. That's why in may 2015, Jof launched the
project Raspivo, Raspberry Ri 2 + XiVO = Raspivo. Blog and more info
at http://raspivo.io

The beggining of the adventure with raspberry pi 2, XiVO and
Raspbian

Iris-Network (http://www.iris-network.fr), a telecommunications
company based in France, decided to launch a new project combining
XiVO and Raspberry-pi 2, a low-cost embedded platform.

This article summarizes the installation of Raspbian, the
recompilation of XiVO packages for the ARM platform, and testing
that was done on incoming and outgoing calls in order to validate
the quality and the stability of the architecture.

During the tests, 12 simultaneous calls were successfully handled in
optimal conditions.

In order to test the project in real world conditions, the team at
Iris-Network replaced their internal telephone system, along with
the hotline platform, with a RPi2 server. So far, everything remains
stable and running ! Currently, testing is progressing with the help
of beta-testing customers. In the spirit of sharing and respect for
the open source philosophy, work on the project has been made
available to the public by publishing debian packages.

From a disk image (IMG): To make installation easier, a complete
disk image can be downloaded, taking less than 5 minutes to install.
In the same way as you would install Raspbian, you can also install
Raspivo thanks to 'dd': dd if=Raspivo-15.10.img of=/dev/sdX
(replacing sdX with the partition of your sdcard).

The changelog for XiVO is available here
http://projects.xivo.io/versions/223 and you can find more news on
raspivo here http://www.raspivo.io/version-1510.html.

The project would be grateful to hear from anyone who would be
interested in testing or any other feedback.

"These tutorials will help me during my presentation on raspberry pi
2 with XiVO for workshops for a local fablab in Quebec" wanda,
member of http://espace-lab.org; "Raspivo is a
new initiative from the community ! Have fun ! I'm very happy with
xivo on raspberry pi. " quintana, http://www.raspberry-xivo.org/.

Feel free to share and have fun with this open source project and
the logo raspivo.io ! :)